St Eugene Catholic Church - Former
St Eugene Catholic Church - Former - After the Flood 00-04-1963 - National Archives Australia - Photo supplied by John Huth.
Bush School - Adavale - Former 00-00-1910 - Picture Queensland, State Library of Queensland - Bonzle.com

St Eugene Catholic Church - Former

Adavale, QLD 4474

Church Information

Church Name: St Eugene Catholic Church - Former
Church Previous Name: -
Denomination: Catholic Church in Australia
Street Address: Mckinlay St, Adavale QLD 4474, Australia
Suburb: Adavale
State: QLD
Postcode: 4474
Foundation Stone Laid: unknown
Foundation Stone Notes: No Foundation Stone or Memorial Plaque details are known. Information/photographs are invited.
Date Opened: unknown
Date Closed: unknown
Email: admin@churchesaustralia.org

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The former St Eugene Catholic Church, Adavale property is now privately owned. Early church services were held in the rudimentary bush school, Adavale (see photograph three - note the cross on the roof). Services were then held in the Town Hall when it was built in the first decade of the twentieth century. The date of the former church building is not known, but believed to have been in the mid 1920s.

The restored church was moved to its present location in McKinley Street, after the disastrous flood of 30/3/1963, which saw the church wrenched from its original foundations, (on the corner of Skinner St. and Shepherd St.) and swept several hundred metres downstream to come to rest against a ghost gum, badly damaged. More historical information/photographs of the former church/congregation are invited. Photographs uploaded 27/11/2018 & 22/3/2019 & 30/10/2019.

 

Last Updated: Thursday 28th May, 2020
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